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Senior Engineering Manager, Site Reliability

Upstart · United States | Remote

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
81 days
Upstart's roles stay open a median of 82 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Upstart's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Upstart
high
93 stale, 5 reposted of 93 open
Hiring momentum
135 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-24

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Upstart's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Upstart.

About this role

The Senior Engineering Manager of Site Reliability Engineering at Upstart will lead a team focused on enhancing the reliability and operational maturity of the company's products and services. This role involves managing incident management practices, improving observability, and ensuring operational readiness. The manager will collaborate with engineering leaders to set reliability expectations and develop scalable capabilities, while also fostering a high-performing team culture.

Our read on this posting3.0out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Upstart as an employer.

What you need

  • 5+ years of reliability engineering management experience
  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, infrastructure, or platform engineering
  • Significant hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering or equivalent role
  • Direct experience managing an SRE or equivalent reliability function
  • Strong technical depth in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and production operations
  • Experience leading high severity incident response

Nice to have

  • Experience operating large scale, highly available distributed systems
  • Experience implementing or evolving service-level objectives and error-budget practices
  • Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies
  • Experience developing incident management or resilience programs across a large engineering organization
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS, and modern cloud native architectures

What you get

  • Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly
  • Retirement benefits including a 401(k) with a company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan with discounted stock purchase options
  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision
  • Health Savings Account contributions for eligible plans
  • Income protection benefits including life insurance and disability coverage

Worth weighing

  • No specific technologies or tools mentioned for incident management or observability practices
  • Remote work flexibility is emphasized, but in-person collaboration is also encouraged
  • The role requires balancing immediate operational needs with long-term improvements, which may involve complex decision-making

Summarised from Upstart's posting. Read the full original.

Listed by Upstart on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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